Notebook



May 7, 1940. I Q BLOCK 2,200,146

NOTEBOOK FJ' led Sept. 6, 1939 ATTORNEY Patented May 7, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NOTEBOOK Clara Block, New York, N. r. Application September 6, 1939, Serial No. 293,541

1 Claim.

The present invention is particularly concerned with loose leaf notebook binders of the type having a plurality of spaced rings for swingably and freely sustaining a plurality of sheets of paper relative to a foldable cover appropriately carrying the spaced rings. The object of the invention however is realized in the provision of serviceable and improved. retaining means disposed medially of the cover and projecting into the sheets of paper to resiliently although removably retain a writing implement, for example, a pencil within the complementary gap means defining an elongated recess having sides and end walls to preclude shifting of the writing implement widthwise or lengthwise'relative to the sheets of paper. The invention has as a further object to provide in a notebook a writing implement retainer formed of suitable wire for frictionally but yieldingly cooperating with the outer surface of the writing implement'to hold the latter against displacement transversely of the notebook when the latter is either in an open or closed relation. Further objects, advantages, features and aspects of the invention will be more apparent from the teachings of the following detailed disclosure considered in connection with the accompanying drawing wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the loose leaf notebook according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the notebook in an open relation.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line I3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the writing implement retaining member.

Illustrative of the embodiment disclosed, the loose leaf notebook according to the invention is generally denoted l0 and is characterized by a cover having a medially or centrally arranged portion I2 spatially carrying wire forms It, threaded through alined perforations ll in the sides I5 of the foldable cover I I and through the registering openings IS in the superimposed or juxtapositioned sheets of paper II, the arrangement being such, that the sheets of the stack are swingably or rotatably guided by the wire forms II to permit turning of each leaf relative to the sides of the cover as is well understood.

The writing implement retaining means I8 is likewise formed of wire and particularly of a single piece of wire comprising a plurality of spaced substantially annular members or rin I9 interconnected by ends or bridge means 20 thus defining outside relatively narrow loops slightly spaced from the intermediate wide loop constituted by an end or bridge 2| merged with the inner rings l8.

The outer end rings I! of the narrow loops each include a laterally extending stop lug 22 adapted to project beyond adjacent openings 23 in the cover through which rings l9 are threaded. These stop lips 22 together with bridge 2| cooperate with the medially arranged portion l2 of the cover to prevent rotation of the retaining member l8.

In effect it may be said that the loops of the retaining member l8 are threaded into spaced openings 23 in the cover and are loosely although rotatably sustained by the latter, thus permitting displacement of the retaining member transversely of the cover when the writing implement 24 is withdrawn therefrom and from its pocket or recess 25 characterized by the mating reentrant and gaps 26 in corresponding margins of the block or sheets of paper.

Where the pencil is slidably removed from the retaining or guide member the bridge: means or crown portions of the outer and inner loops thereof move towards one another or retract due to the automatic contraction, due to the inherent resiliency causing crowns 20 to slightly straddle bridge 2| of the intermediate loop; Upon inserheld by the retaining member when the notebook is opened, the side pocket 25' concomitantly serving to locate the writing implement as well as precluding lateral and longitudinal displacement.

The wire forms l3 are along the lines of the retaining member l8 except that each includes six rings to characterize three narrow loops disposed alternately in respect to relatively Wider loops of the type illustrated in Fig. 5.

Various changes may be made in details of construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof inherent therein.

In a book comprising, a cover, a plurality of rings spatially carried by said cover, sheets of paper swingably sustained by said rings and ineluding registering and reentrant gaps along the inner margins thereof for receiving a writing implement, a one piece substantially cylindrical resilient wire form loosely carried by and disposed substantially medially 01 said cover and having a plurality of spaced rings and bridge means interconnecting said rings to provide spaced relatively narrow loops and a relatively wider loop movably straddled by said narrow loops, said loops movably projecting into said gaps and widthwise thereof, and said writing implement adapted to be slidably inserted into said form to diverge said loops whereby the latter frictionally but disengageably retain said implement within said gaps and against transverse displacement relative to said sheets, said gaps having front and rear ends and said sheets having means at said ends and cooperating with said implement to prevent longitudinal displacement of the latter relative to said sheets.

CLARA BLOCK. o 

